Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
